Converting to Things Foreknown
Heaney’s Marvelous Imagination in “Station Island”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21187288 |
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| Authors | Ryan L Womack (Baylor University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 220-231 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Estudios Irlandeses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1699-311X • E-ISSN: 1699-311X |
| Publisher | Estudios Irlandeses (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.24162/ei2016-6210 |
| OpenAlex | W4242034164 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Seamus Heaney says in his “The Murmur of Malvern”, a review of Derek Walcott’s The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979) that “The best poems in The Star-Apple Kingdom are dream-visions; the high moments are hallucinatory, cathartic, redemptive even” (Heaney 1990: 25). It is also true to say that some of Heaney’s own best poems are dream-visions, those
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| Highly cited | No |
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